Originally posted by Pale Horse:
Does Anyone Have Any Good Darwin Award Nominees Layin' Around.??


one I came across yesterday
Quote:

Lord Of The Rings fan Julian Brooker was electrocuted on a rail line while imitating his favourite character Gollum. The 23-year-old scampered about on all fours like the 4ft hobbit and then pretended to touch a live track to impress his boozy friends. Unfortunately, for Julian, he accidentally touched what happened to be a 750-volt rail. The event struck after he and pals spent a night drinking on the beach near his Brighton home on October 23 last year.

Friend Eva Natasha wept as she told an inquest how they went to London Road station at 4am and began playing "the Gollum game". She described how Julian clambered from the platform on to the line. She said: "He touched a rail and pretended to be electrocuted. I didn't find it funny, but assumed he knew what he was doing. Then he touched the live rail..."

Yesterday's hearing was told Julian often got on all fours and pretended he was the evil character from the hit movie trilogy. East Sussex coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley was also told Brooker was a keen numerologist obsessed with the number 23 and went drinking on that date every month.


Then there was the one about the college girl doing a drunken handstand on her balcony..

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